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Portugal’s new Socialist government gets off to bumpy start

Portugal is getting a new foreign minister, finance minister and defense minister as the center-left Socialist Party prepares for its third straight term in government, with blunders

Japan and Saudis qualify for World Cup after Australia lose

Japan qualified for a seventh successive World Cup after beating Australia 2-0 in Sydney and ending the Socceroos’ chances of automatic qualification yesterday. The result also qualified

Calling Asians ‘robotic’ is a racist stereotype with troubled history

When U.S. figure skater Nathan Chen won the gold medal in men’s figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics, a Washington Post article attributed his win to a

Friday, March 25, 2022 – edition no. 3979

— Despite alerts on possible outbreak, the gov’t shortens hotel quarantine to 14 days for residents coming from outside of mainland-China, followed by 7 days home-isolation * NATO summit | Biden

Hotel quarantine shortened to two weeks for Macau residents

The Health Bureau has just announced that from March 28, all entrants from non-mainland Chinese locations will have their quarantine period shortened to 14 days, although health self-management for seven

What is the new Covid-19 variant BA.2, and will it cause another wave of infections?

Prakash Nagarkatti University of South Carolina A new omicron subvariant of the virus that causes COVID-19, BA.2, is quickly becoming the predominant source of infections

Mail quarantined 70-hours before distribution

All incoming mail will be quarantined in the indoor parking lot of the Macao Post and Telecommunications Bureau (CTT) for 70 hours before being distributed, a spokesperson of the

Coutinho calls for another round of consumption cards, support for SMEs

Lawmaker José Pereira Coutinho continues to urge the government to provide a new round of financial support using consumption cards. Coutinho made the call in

Domestic violence cases on the rise

Tang Yuk Wa, deputy director of the Social Welfare Bureau (IAS), has revealed that over the past two years during which Macau residents have lived under a

Gov’t says city links China to Lusophone countries in technological development

Macau is strategically well placed to connect China and Lusophone countries in the field of technology, Tai Kin Ip, director of the Economic and Technological Development

Winter Olympic mascot linked to MUST

Liu Pingyun, chief executive of the team that designed one of the mascots for the Beijing Winter Olympics, worked on the project while he was studying

New legislation to allow Macau, foreign med doctors to work in Hengqin

Zhuhai will introduce new regulations to allow more Hong Kong, Macau and foreign health professionals to work in Guangdong-Macau in-depth cooperation zone in Hengqin, Zhuhai city, according to a press conference

Local man scammed over ‘industrial visas’

A local man has reportedly been scammed out of RMB137,000 by a non-resident worker from the mainland employed in a watch shop in Macau, the

Recyclables collector steals door ‘by mistake’

A 50-year-old Vietnamese woman working as a collector of recyclable materials has been accused by a store owner of stealing the steel door from his store.

One ‘black box’ found in China Eastern plane crash

A Chinese aviation official said yesterday that one of the two “black box” recorders had been found with its casing in severely damaged condition, two days after

Gov’t considers extending four-month military conscription

Taiwan is considering extending its four-month compulsory military service, its defense minister said yesterday, amid concerns about the self-governing island democracy’s tensions with China, which have

NATO: 7,000 to 15,000 Russian troops dead in Ukraine

NATO is estimating that 7,000 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in a month of fighting in Ukraine. A senior NATO military official said last

Downing Street vows to help families facing cost-of-living crisis

Britain's Treasury chief is pledging to respond to Russia’s war in Ukraine and a cost-of-living crisis hitting working families when he delivers his spring budget

A new fund directs its support to Ukraine’s long-term needs

The humanitarian needs of more than 10 million displaced Ukrainians have quickly become staggering. Yet Mark Malloch-Brown, president of the Open Society Foundations, warns that longer-term problems

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